Alert – Take action against the Tajikistan’s Islamophobic ban on the hijab

July 19, 2024

Summary The Tajikistani government is taking extreme measures to ban the practising of Islam from the country. This includes enforcing a hijab ban. Join us in opposing this. Background On 20th June 2024, the Tajikistani government banned the hijab (headscarf) considered to be a

Condemn the ill-treatment of Azerbaijani Muslim Movement for Unity members and Demand Their Release

July 19, 2022

Background More Information Action required Template Letter Recipients Address Background The extreme secular and corrupt Azerbaijani government has severely persecuted Azerbaijani activists. As well as harassment, censorship and blockading of the town of Nadaran, a town with large support for the Muslim Movement for

Shia Islam, the social winner of the latest Karabakh war

March 17, 2021

Listen to the podcast of the article or read the full text below. When the conflict over the contested region of Ngorno-Karabakh erupted again after almost thirty years, people around the world, including Muslims, often viewed it through superficial lenses. Zviad Jughashvili argues

A Time for Apples and Horses: Let’s Stop Excusing Borat

October 29, 2020

This tweet from the Decolonial Atlas made my day. Two of history’s most consequential events were the domestications of the horse and the apple. Both happened in Kazakhstan. Maps: Naibin Duan, Brittanica pic.twitter.com/16FUsvcUSy — The Decolonial Atlas (@decolonialatlas) October 27, 2020 No commentary added. No

The past and the future of the Salafi/Wahhabi trend in the former-Soviet Union

November 28, 2019

The possibilities for Islamic political space in the Former Soviet Union continue to create support for a singular trend from many surprising constituencies argues Zviad Jughashvili. As the Saudi regime is going through its most vulnerable phase the regime’s soft-power outreach through its Wahhabi educational institutions

Azerbaijan urged to come clean over torture of political prisoners

July 30, 2019

PRESS RELEASE IHRC is gravely concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in Azerbaijan one year after bloody riots erupted in the country’s second largest city, Genje. The unrest was triggered by graphic images posted on social media showing horrific injuries sustained by Yunis Safarov,